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Little things can make a difference.
That was a message Maggie Wells conveyed to children at St. Paul Lutheran School in Leavenworth.
Wells and Emily Mitchell, who both attend Tonganoxie High School, asked St. Paul students to donate pop-tabs from soda cans as a fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald House in Kansas City, Mo.
The project began around Christmas time and culminated Friday when Wells announced that the students had collected 192,569 pop-tabs. The school has about 170 students.
“As you can see we have a lot of pop-tabs,” Wells said.
The pop-tabs had been piled on the floor of Saint Paul’s gymnasium for Friday’s assembly.
If the pop-tabs were to be lined up end-to-end, they would stretch for about three miles, according to Wells.
Wells, a junior, and Mitchell, a freshman, organized the project as members of the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America club at Tonganoxie High School.
The pop-tabs will be turned over to the Ronald McDonald House to be recycled.
According to the Ronald McDonald House Charities Kansas City website, pop-tabs are worth more than the rest of the cans they from because they are made of a higher quality aluminum.
Some classes at St. Paul will be rewarded with pizza parties for their collection efforts.
And the two students who donated the most pop-tabs were rewarded Friday by being given the opportunity to throw pies in their teachers’ faces.
Michelle Denney, a fourth-grader, donated 51,3357 and had the chance to throw a pie in the face of teacher Brandy Hamilton.
“It was fun,” Hamilton said after the assembly. “It was for a good cause.”
Denney said she collected pop-tabs at home and also received donations from someone at St. Paul Lutheran Church.
Preschooler Kim Brengle donated 23,500 pop-tabs. And he had the chance to throw a pie in the face of teacher Susan Wells, who is the mother of Maggie Wells.
Little things can make a difference.
That was a message Maggie Wells conveyed to children at St. Paul Lutheran School in Leavenworth.
Wells and Emily Mitchell, who both attend Tonganoxie High School, asked St. Paul students to donate pop-tabs from soda cans as a fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald House in Kansas City, Mo.
The project began around Christmas time and culminated Friday when Wells announced that the students had collected 192,569 pop-tabs. The school has about 170 students.
“As you can see we have a lot of pop-tabs,” Wells said.
The pop-tabs had been piled on the floor of Saint Paul’s gymnasium for Friday’s assembly.
If the pop-tabs were to be lined up end-to-end, they would stretch for about three miles, according to Wells.
Wells, a junior, and Mitchell, a freshman, organized the project as members of the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America club at Tonganoxie High School.
The pop-tabs will be turned over to the Ronald McDonald House to be recycled.
According to the Ronald McDonald House Charities Kansas City website, pop-tabs are worth more than the rest of the cans they from because they are made of a higher quality aluminum.
Some classes at St. Paul will be rewarded with pizza parties for their collection efforts.
And the two students who donated the most pop-tabs were rewarded Friday by being given the opportunity to throw pies in their teachers’ faces.
Michelle Denney, a fourth-grader, donated 51,3357 and had the chance to throw a pie in the face of teacher Brandy Hamilton.
“It was fun,” Hamilton said after the assembly. “It was for a good cause.”
Denney said she collected pop-tabs at home and also received donations from someone at St. Paul Lutheran Church.
Preschooler Kim Brengle donated 23,500 pop-tabs. And he had the chance to throw a pie in the face of teacher Susan Wells, who is the mother of Maggie Wells.
